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by golly_ned 8mo ago
I see this same thing now. In this case, it’s a more senior engineer and his manager taking credit for work a less senior engineer who’d left the team did. There’s simply no advantage to crediting work to someone who’d left the team. We lov
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by golly_ned 8mo ago
It’s not true that if someone else is getting credit for your work, that’s a you problem. At my workplace now, there’s a senior staff engineer taking credit for work that was done by someone 3 levels below him. And the senior staff engineer
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by golly_ned 8mo ago
Yes.
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by golly_ned 9mo ago
As someone who isn't invested in this spat, this just looks petty for openai to put this on their website. Just write a press release and let the tech press publish it. Don't host it yourself. The legalistic language belongs in a
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by golly_ned 9mo ago
That's not at all what they meant. They meant they ended up raising their own quality bar tremendously because the QA person represented a ~P5 user, not a P50 or P95 user, and had to design around misuse & sad path instead of happy
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by golly_ned 9mo ago
Frankly I think the 'latest' generation of models from a lot of providers, which switch between 'fast' and 'thinking' modes, are really just the 'latest' because they encourage users to use cheaper in
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by golly_ned 9mo ago
As long as I'm not reviewing PRs with thousands of lines net new that weren't even read by their PR submitter, I'm fine with anything. The software design I've seen from AI code agent using peers has been dreadful. I thi
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by golly_ned 9mo ago
He's contrasting Google's childishly 'friendly' image with its reality. It's rhetoric. You're making it about manipulation. Should the world consist of bloodless lists of facts without significance or commentar
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by golly_ned 10mo ago
I don't think this quite captures the problem: even if the code is functional and proven to work, it can still be bad in many other ways. The submitter should understand how it works and be able to 'own' and review modificati
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by golly_ned 10mo ago
I wonder how much their revenue really ends up contributes towards covering their costs. In my mind, they're hardly making any money compared to how much they're spending, and are relying on future modeling and efficiency gains to
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by golly_ned 10mo ago
I haven't seen things work like this in practice, where heavy AI users end up being able to generating a solution, then later grasp it and learn from it, with any kind of effectiveness or deep understanding. It's like reading the
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by golly_ned 10mo ago
> Instead of spending three hours figuring out which API to use, they spend twenty minutes evaluating options the AI surfaced This really isn't the case from what I've seen. It's that they use Cursor or other code generati
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by golly_ned 10mo ago
Compared to the other benchmarks which are much more gameable, I trust PelicanBikeEval way more.
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by golly_ned 11mo ago
There was Chainer, which originated the define-by-run model that characterized PyTorch’s effectiveness. It was developed by a much smaller, much less influential company in Japan. Early PyTorch is transparent about the debt owed to Chainer.
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by golly_ned 1y ago
When did things start going south, in terms of what year, or what events?
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by golly_ned 1y ago
Frankly, I think if you asked the difficult engineer, he'd say we're also stuck in a culture of live and let live vs. excellence, and that he's on the side of excellence, and his teammates just aren't good enough.
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by golly_ned 1y ago
I talked to my manager just now. He knows of some cases where engineers have had bad experiences with him, but not others. Some apparently just talk to me but don't raise it to our manager. He still knew he was a problematic engineer,
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by golly_ned 1y ago
Good advice. This is what I’m planning to do. I didn’t do this in the meeting since he misrepresented how bad this was.
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by golly_ned 1y ago
We are remote. He’s been told at least a few times. I can do this over 1:1 over remote, but it definitely doesn’t feel the same. We have a team onsite in a few weeks. I could do it then. I still think it’s more likely than not that things w
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by golly_ned 1y ago
I can’t do that. My manager can, but I don’t think he’s strong-willed enough to actually do it. I can put it in writing in his review, which I plan to do. I don’t want it to be a surprise. I need way more from my manager. The only way I can
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by golly_ned 1y ago
I’m planning on making it clear we should do this. I’m expecting push-back. I’m just not going to entertain it and rely on my manager to handle scheduling while I take part in technical review. I’m exhausted of having to fight this guy to d
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by golly_ned 1y ago
Yes, I am disappointed with my manager, especially given the number of times and the insistence with which I've raised this. It's clear to me both that he's afraid how this will reflect on him to his manager, and he's af
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by golly_ned 1y ago
> You're the lead, so just assume that you have cart blanche to just book the meeting You're right. I should just push this. I'm attempting to be collaborative but I'm ending up just being conflict-averse to the detri
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by golly_ned 1y ago
In feedback and promo docs my leadership and soft skills were called out as exemplary and distinctively strong. If anything it's the opposite. I don't think my technical skills are as strong as some peers at my level. A big part o
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by golly_ned 1y ago
If you already don't believe me, and want to think the worst, I won't be able to change your mind. In another comment I've explained why I think this "OP is the real problem" narrative probably isn't the case,
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by golly_ned 1y ago
| Have you (or higher ups) pointed out his immaturity and behavior are likely the exact reasons he wasn’t selected to lead the team, and if he continues on this path he is ensuring he will never advance at the company? That could do one of
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by golly_ned 1y ago
> Push through your ways every single time. This kind of sadly has been the most effective. Previously when I did this he'd re-litigate this over slack and in meetings again and again, trying to prove this was a bad decision. He&#x2
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by golly_ned 1y ago
I'm the "senior" engineer in this situation (actually, senior staff -- the other engineer is 'senior', though titles in this company are inflated by ~1 relative to standards at FAANG). I'm the designated engine
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by golly_ned 1y ago
I haven't, because I want the support of my manager, and he's resistant to going to HR because he is afraid of looking bad to our director. Really crappy situation. Another thing is: it's really difficult to point to specific
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by golly_ned 1y ago
Pretty much everything else about my job is basically my dream job. I don't think the "it's him or me" position will work out, especially given I'm more two levels more senior. I think that would just cause me to lo

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